Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-09
PROCLAMATION
And Notice of Special Election.

WHEREAS, on the Els; day of January, 1857,
" the Board of County Commissioners of
the county of Barber. state of Kansas made
an orier, of which the following is u copy:
ORDER
Whereas. petition signed by Robert Yates
and fifty other persons, the same being more
than two-fifths of the resident taxpayers of
the township of MingOna, county of Barber
Board of County Commissioners Of the county
of Barber, asking that a special election be
called and ordered In said township of Mngo-
ma, county Of Barber, forth purpose of voting
upon a proposition to subscribe to the capital
stock of The Chicago, Kansas e. Western Rail-
road Company, and issue the bonds of said
township of Mingona, county of Barber, in pay
ment therefor; which petition, exclusive of the
signatures, is IN words and figures as fellows,
tO-wlt:
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Board of COunty
Commissioners Of Barber County,
KOnSdS:
We, the undersigned, your petitioners, being
resident taxpayers and legal voters of the
township of MingOna, county of Barber, state
of Kansas. respectfully petition your honora-
BILE body to submit to the qualified electors of
said township of MngOna, for their acceptance
or rejection, at special election to be ordered
by your honorable body, under and in pursu-
ance of the laws of the state of Kansas, and an
act entitled "An act to enable counties, town
ships and cities to aid in the construction of
railroads, and to repeal section 8, of chapter
81 OF Jne lhWS 1914, WDlcn TOOK erect Feb
ruary -, 1876, and amend ments thereto. the
following propositions, with the terms and con-
ditions herein specified, to-wit:
shall r the tho township n1sf OF Mngena county of
one hundred shares, of one hundred dollars
each, of the capital stock of The Chicago, Kan
sas & Western Railroad Company, a corpora
ton organized and existing under the laws of
the state of Kansas, and in payment therefor
issue to said railroad company ten bonds OF
said township of Mingona, county of Barber,
of the denomination of one Thousand dollars
each, said bonds to be payable to the bearer,
at tn fiscal agency OF the state of Kansas, in
thereof. bearing interest at the rate of six per
cent. per annum, payable annually, for which
interest coupons shall be attached, payable at
the fiscal agency aforesaid.
This subscription of stock and issue of bonds
| to be upon the following conditions, namely:
AS soon as said proposition shall be determined
| In the atnrmat1ve, by canvass of the votes cast
| at said election, the Board of County Commits
sioners of said county of Barber, for and IN
Barber, shall order the county clerk to make,
and the county clerk shall make said subscrip-
ton, in the name of said township of Mingona,
county of Barber, for said one hundred shares
of capital stock of said railroad company; and
when the railroad of said railroad company
| shall be built of standard gauge, and compile
from q connection with the railroad of the
Southern Kansas Railway company, at or near
Medicine Lodge, in the couEty OF Barber, in
the state of Kansas, TO the south or east line
of said township, through to the west line
thereof, upon the survey heretofore made. the
said The Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad
Company shall receive ten thousand dollars of
said bonds, and issue one hundred shares of
stock therefor.
The said Board of County Commissioners
shall cause such bonds, with inter est coupons
attached. "a aforesaid. foibe issued in the name
of said township OF Mingona, county of Bar
Der, and shall deliver the same to said railroad
rer of said township of Mingona, county If
Barber, by said railroad company, of certih-
Gates for Its shares of fully paid up capital
stock of said railroad company, equal in
amount with said bonds, dollar for dollar:
Provided, said railroad shall be built and CON-
pleted and in operation. by lease or otherwise.
as Aforesaid, with freight and passenger de-
pot and station. at the town of Mingona, In said
township, established ready for business, on or
before the firstday of September, 1887.
Provided further, that IL the said The Chica-
90, Kansas Western Railroad Company shall
be hindered or delayed in the construction of
the said line OF railroad by extraordinary action
of the elements. the length of time it is so hin
dered shall be added to the time herein taken
to complete said railroad
The form of ballots to be used Mt said cleo
.'For the subscription of stock and issue of
bonds to The Chicago. Kansas Western Rail-
road Company,
Against the subscription of stock and issue
Of bonds TO The Chicago, Kansas Il Western
Ii is therefore, by the Board of County Com
missioners of the county of Barber, state Of
hdneac, Oruere0 ana Qlrec1e0 tnar n special
election be held In the township of Mingona,
county OF Barber. state of Kansas, on
THE 90 DAY OF MARCH, 1887,
to determine whether the proposition to sub
scribe for the stock of The Chicago, Kansas &
Western Railroad Company, and issue the
bonds of the township Of Mingona. county of
Barber. in payment therefor. on the coudi-
tons contained in said petition, shall be adopt
ed or rejected. The special election shall be
held. and returns made and result ascertained
and declared in the same manner as provided
by law for general elections. The ballots to be
used In said election, for and against said prop
ositiou, shall be of the form and contain the
words stated in said petition. Thirty days no.
tice OF said election shall first be given. ac-
cordfng 10 Law. and the sberin Of said county
OF Barber IL hereby ordered and directed tO
give SAID notice. and make due proclamation
Done at Medicine Lodge. this, slst day OF
Wv. COOK.
JOHN MCGRATH,
J. D. FLEMING.
Board Of County Commissioners
Attest. RoBT. J. TALIAFERRo.
LsEALl County Clerk